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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Sep 3

25 years since I went from the biggest skeptic to the biggest fan of arranged marriages.

#alwaysgoodtobeabletoblameothers

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Aug 21

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
—-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
—-Abraham Lincoln

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—-George Santayana

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Aubrey Whelan @aubreywhelan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Last month, RFK Jr. demanded the retraction of a vaccine study in the scientific journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

Its Philly-based editor refused.

"He didn’t like the study Annals published," she told me, "mostly because it didn’t align with his beliefs." www.inquirer.com/health/chris...

RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused

Annals of Internal Medicine editor Christine Laine says she won’t retract the study, as demanded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and "we’re not changing what we do because of threats."

www.inquirer.com

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Aug 20

Fred Hutch bone marrow transplant pioneer Dr. Rainer Storb marked two major milestones this year: turning 90 and retiring after nearly 60 years in a career that helped shape modern hematology. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Hi7ptq

Two lifetimes’ worth of bone marrow transplant breakthroughs

Dr. Rainer Storb began studying bone marrow transplantation when the field was in its infancy. As he retires 60 years later, Storb reflected on the exhausting early days, lifesaving breakthroughs and ...

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Aug 14

Get to know Jennifer Dinh, an undergrad at the University of Washington, interning in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)!

#fredhutch #cancer #cancerresearch #undergrad #internship #science #womeninstem #chemistry #biology #phd #seattle

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 8

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks @murray.senate.gov and the Appropriations committee for the bipartisan bill that rejects the draconian cuts to NIH science and restricts the harmful multiyear funding scheme!

www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

Senator Murray Opening Remarks at Full Committee Mark Up of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jul 29

A good explainer for #NIH funded researchers on why the multiyear funding scheme is going to squeeze NIH scientists and NIH science. open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

A Quiet Policy Shift That Could Devastate American Science

Why NIH’s sudden move to multi-year grant funding should alarm every principal investigator and university

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jun 23

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:

161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case

The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 23

NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · May 31

A reminder, in case you need one, that women are incredible athletes

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 27

The Republican administration continues to violate court orders to provide due process to men illegally rendered overseas.

Amidst everything else going on, don't lose sight of what they are—thus far—getting away with.

Judge Criticizes Government Inaction in Case of Migrants Held in Djibouti

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Simon @scientistner.bsky.social · Apr 30

I’m so sorry. Keep fighting. Thank you for everything you’re doing!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 22

Vance and the pope, Hegseth's signal groups, Rubio unraveling the state department, RFK Jr.'s antics—it's a lot.

Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process.

278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared.

Gift link.

Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared (Gift Article)

The Venezuelan man does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts.

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Simon @scientistner.bsky.social · Apr 22

If only I could forget that I watched it already … I’d only I could forget .

Julian Simon @scientistner.bsky.social · Apr 22

If only my dog would eat my charger …

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 21

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.

Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · Apr 21

This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 16

They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.

NSF scraps most outside advisory panels

Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities

www.science.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 29

Extraordinary story that illustrates the depth of RFK Jr.'s perfidy in assuring congress he is an antivaxxer no longer.

Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.

Exclusive | FDA’s Top Vaccine Official Forced Out

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

www.wsj.com

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · Mar 24

with @qjurecic.bsky.social on due process
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The Overlooked Legal Problem at the Heart of Trump’s So-Called Deportations to El Salvador

The Trump administration flew more than 200 Venezuelans right into a legal black hole.

slate.com

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Julian Simon @scientistner.bsky.social · Mar 21

Late to the party. Has anyone else noticed the Trumpophila surge in the NYT Daily? First Greenland, then Europe and NATO and today “were the lockdowns WORTH IT?” Worth what? 100,000 lives? 1,000,000 lives? 5,000,000 lives?

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Mar 19

Shameful

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 11

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.

This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.

This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Mar 11

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine

HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 10

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Mar 10

NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake

The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Mar 10

If folks aren’t already, please make sure you follow aclu.org and support their mission if you can

Home | American Civil Liberties Union

The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarante...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 10

Chris Rufo always has bragged about his evil plans like he's got James Bond suspended over a tank of sharks.

His interview with Douthat is no exception.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

A medium- or long-term goal of mine is to figure out how to adjust the formula of finances from the federal government to the universities in a way that puts them in an existential terror and have them say, Unless we change what we’re doing, we’re not going to be able to meet our budget for the year. We’re going to have to wind certain things down and then make the universities make those hard decisions.

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · Mar 9

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 9

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.

Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Real chilling effects

A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech

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